Project comparison
Cross-project XBOW scores are each project’s public self-reports, run under different forks, models, turn caps, and retry protocols. They are protocol-sensitive and should not be read as a matched-conditions ranking. These are historical comparison figures, not a refreshed survey of each project’s latest release. 0’s row comes from the 2026-05-06 ledger snapshot.
Where the agents sit on XBOW
Section titled “Where the agents sit on XBOW”| Agent | Score | Model | Approach | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BoxPwnr | 97.1% (101/104) | Claude / GPT-5 / others | Shell-first, best-of-N across ~10 configs (best single model 81.7%) | Unknown |
| Shannon | 96.15% (100/104) | Claude 3-tier | White-box (reads source), 13-agent | ~$50/scan |
| KinoSec | 92.3% (96/104) | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Black-box, 50-turn cap | Unknown (proprietary) |
| Cyber-AutoAgent | 84.62% (88/104) | Not disclosed | Single meta-agent, self-rewriting prompts | Unknown |
| deadend-cli | 77.55% (~76/98) | Kimi K2.5 | Single-agent CLI (tested 98/104) | $122 / 104 |
| MAPTA | 76.9% (80/104) | GPT-5 | 3-role multi-agent | $21.38 total |
| 0 | 93/95 = 97.9% recorded cohort | Azure gpt-5.4 | Any-success retained-results grouping by model; not established pass@1 or black-box-only | Recorded ~$0.48/result, $5.20/solved challenge |
Two distinctions:
- Best-of-N ≠ single-config ≠ single-shot. BoxPwnr’s cited number unions configurations. 0’s consolidator also unions successes within each model ID without enforcing one configuration, one attempt, or one target mode. Neither grouping establishes a matched pass@1 comparison. See Methodology.
- White-box ≠ black-box. Shannon reads source, which lifts the ceiling on challenges with no web-facing vector. Not directly comparable to black-box-only runs.
Implementation differences
Section titled “Implementation differences”- Blind verification: an independent agent re-exercises candidates on the verification path. Other workflows retain their own evidence states.
- Reachability:
packages/core/src/triage/reachability.tsuses patterns to assess whether a sink is callable. - Scanner agreement: the optional foxguard
check compares the same tree (
packages/core/src/triage/multi-modal.ts). - Cost accounting: the historical cohort records $5.20 per solved challenge; repeat-mode aggregation has limits described in Methodology.
Architecture comparison
Section titled “Architecture comparison”These results use different models, tools, memory, search strategies, and agent
counts. They do not isolate agent count as a cause. 0 uses shell tools and
supports concurrent spawn_agents for parallel strategies.
Related
Section titled “Related”- 0
- Benchmark
- XBOW Analysis
- Methodology
- Triage ablation — measured effects of individual gates